A little humor for this Tuesday morning:
social media
Is a Twitter edit button on its way?
I could sure use one. Here is the AP’s Tari Arbel: Twitter tweeted Tuesday that it is indeed working on a way for users to edit their 280-character messages, although it says the project has nothing to do with the fact […]
Jonathan Haidt on the stupidity of American life
According to the New York University social psychologist and author of The Righteous Mind, social media is the culprit. It is hard to argue with his analysis. Haidt’s article should be read alongside Current editor Felicia Wu Song’s Restless Devices: […]
The GOP as Trump Steaks
Tim Miller writes for the conservative online magazine The Bulwark. He was the communications director for the 2016 Jeb Bush campaign and spokesperson for the Republican National Committee. Here is a taste of his piece “The Republican Party Is Trump […]
Current Associate Editor Felicia Wu Song on the “perils of digital discipleship”
Listen to Felicia Wu Song’s interview with Heather Thompson Day at Christianity Today. In addition to her work at Current, she teaches sociology at Westmont College and is the author of Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the […]
David Bromwich on the state of the university
Over at The Chronicle of Higher Education, Len Gutkin interviews Yale English professor David Bromwich on the state of higher education. The interview comes on the thirtieth anniversary of Bromwich’s Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking. Bromwich […]
What have social media platforms done to academia?
Jeffrey Lawrence, an English professor at Rutgers, gives us a lot to think about in this piece at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Here is a taste of “Who Owns Your Academic Community”: During the past five years, I have […]
Trump’s new social media site is a disaster
Here is Drew Harwell at The Washington Post: Former president Donald Trump, a longtime critic of how Democrats debuted Healthcare.gov, is facing a bungled website launch of his own. His long-promised social network, Truth Social, has been almost entirely inaccessible in […]
Current Associate Editor Felicia Wu Song publishes Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence and Place in the Digital Age
Congratulations to Felicia Wu Song, Professor of Sociology at Westmont College and Associate Editor of Current on the publication of Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence and Place in the Digital Age (InterVarsity Press). Here is the IVP Press: We’re being […]
Current welcomes Felicia Wu Song as Associate Editor!
Today Felicia Wu Song makes her debut at Current. Check out her piece on the misdoings of Facebook titled “Locked In, Cradle to Grave.” Earlier this Fall, Felicia joined Current an Associate Editor. She is Professor of Sociology at Westmont […]
Are you a TikTok influencer?
If you answered yes to the question in the title of this post, I encourage you to read writer and English professor Barrett Swanson‘s recent piece at Harper’s. I am guessing, however, that you won’t read it. Way too long. […]
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Michael Lindell launched his new social media platform today. It did not go well.
Here is Oscar Gonzalez at CNET: Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow and an ardent fan of former President Donald Trump, spent months developing a new social media platform after he was banned from Twitter due to his constant tweets regarding bogus claims of voter fraud […]
How do we have “thick” conversations when our mediums are so “thin”?
Ezra Klein talks to University of North Carolina sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom. They cover a broad range of topics such as writing for public audiences, nostalgia, blogging, generational change, race, disabilities, moral panic, social class, status, blondness, smartness, and the […]
When Facebook replaces the local newspaper
The editor of Current, Eric Miller, is a resident of Beaver County, Pennsylvania. I wonder if he knows about The News Alert of Beaver County public Facebook group? I’ll have to ask him. Brandy Zadrony’s piece at NBC News reveals […]